Zombie Times-Feb 2010

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Terror4fun had a 2009 simply packed with flesh eaters and in 2010 it looks like it could get even more bloody... On a damp, cold Saturday in November 2009, Leicester was under threat of the third massive zombie outbreak in as many years, people ran in terror, blood filled the streets and flesh was hanging off these Living Dead fiends… but these Zombie were not hungering for human flesh, they were searching out a fresh source of Zombie Films and at Terror4funs Day of the Undead they found them… Day of the Undead is the an-nual ‘UK Festival of Zombie Culture,' this its third year, held at the new Phoenix Square, deep in the beating heart of Leicester. A mixture of zombie make up artists, book signings, horror traders, Zombie console gaming and of course a healthy mixture of films from out and out classics that most of the crowd had seen, to rare international films only shown once on these shores, made the event a great big, blood soaked day for all the family… Leicester made feature film ‘Zombie Undead' sold out the biggest screen at the centre and people even had to be turned away… As far as the zombie gaming was concerned, over one hundred people attempted to kill the most zombies in three minutes on CAPCOMs Dead Rising, the winner takes it all, well a Nintendo Wii supplied by CAPCOM. At the end of the day the scores racked up, some did not survive the three minute period, others totalled 6

zombies, some 8 and then the big guns took to the screen, 85 zombies dead, then 94 and then a married couple with 103 and 104, finally young Tully Lennon stood up and was counted, 111 zombies slain in 3 min-utes… It was a thing of beauty, as the final drops of blood hit the floor… he raised his arms in victory… He was the last man standing…. He is the Ultimate Zombie Slayer 2009…

Terror4fun are already look-ing forward to making next years event bigger & better and thoughts of the UKs short zombie film competition are now looming for Day of the Undead 2010… In January, Zombie Ed from Terror4fun, held 2 Zombie Make Up Demos in Bristol as part of a Trade Show. The time, date and location for Zombie Fest 2010 is now set - 13-15 August 2010, this year

subtitled ‘Lead Vs Dead’ due to its Western Theme, so watch out for 6 gun wielding Zommers mid August… www.terror4fun.com/zombie_fest10 Late August there is, of course, the awesome Frightfest which Terror4fun will likely be involved with again and then… October time will have Zombie Ed holding some Zombie Choreography classes near Sheffield and then November time its full circle for the Another Day of the Undead…

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Now if you think this column looks a bit empty or de-

void of zombie activities for 2010, because it does not

have your events in it, then please correct this by

sending us times, dates, locations and links to your

zombie events and we will get them up here for you!!!

Just email Zombie Ed at [email protected] and let us

know all about them. Then we will make sure they

appear in front of 10,000 people in every issue...

Frightfest Glasgow. Feb 26th and 27th

www.frightfest.co.uk More details in this issue...

Charity Zombiewalk - Stafford. March 6th

www.myspace.com/flesheatingfoundation More details in this issue...

How to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse, the Live

Tour… All over the UK during 2010

http://howtosurviveazombieapocalypse.co.uk/

More details in this issue...

FAB Fest 2010. Edinburgh. April 30th to May 2nd

http://www.filmhousecinema.com/ More details in this issue...

Dead in Oxford Zombiewalk. August 10th

More details in this issue...

Terror4fun presents Zombie Fest 2010.

Cosgrove, near Milton Keynes. Aug 13th to 15th

www.terror4fun.com/zombie_fest10

Frightfest 2010, London. August Bank Holiday

www.frightfest.co.uk

Terror4funs Day of the Undead 2010, Leicester.

November. More details coming soon...

Do you Love Zombies? Buy the t-shirt and tell the world……!

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Featuring 15 stunning horror, fantasy and independ-ent movies over 3 days of non-stop movie excess at the Filmhouse cinema in Edinburgh, including many UK premieres and special guests - from Friday 30 April to Sunday 2 May 2010. Passes for FAB Fest at Filmhouse in Edinburgh cost only £65 per person, and are on sale now We have 12 films confirmed already. Announcements regarding the remaining 3 titles will be made soon and if you're a fan of horror and fantasy cinema, you will not want to miss a single one of these treats...

UK premieres: KAIFECK MURDER, THE END, 8TH WONDERLAND and THE IMMACULATE CONCEP-TION OF LITTLE DIZZLE.

Scottish Premieres: A DAY OF VIOLENCE, YESTER-DAY - Zombies, MUST LOVE DEATH, RESURRECT-ING THE STREET WALKER, REEL ZOMBIES - Zom-bies, LIFE IS HOT IN CRACKTOWN and NEIGHBOR

Retrospective guest screening: COMBAT SHOCK (director's cut) USA, 1986 PLUS Guest of Honour, di-rector Buddy Giovinazzo

PLUS: More films and guest appearances to be an-nounced soon. Watch this space! FAB Fest is a three day festival running in Cinema One at Filmhouse on Lothian Road in Edinburgh. There are three ways to buy your Passes... 1) IN PERSON Go direct to the Filmhouse box office on Lothian Road and buy your pass in person. 2) ONLINE Buy your Pass using the Filmhouse online box office. http://www.filmhousecinema.com/ 3) BY PHONE Call the Filmhouse box office on 0131 228 2688.

FAB Fest 2010 Three days of horror & fantasy cinema in Edinburgh

Visit the FAB Press website, and find out more details and watch trailers for the films:

http://www.fabpress.com/

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Hey Zombie Fans,

Welcome again to the zombies times & a happy and very undead filled new year to you all!!!

So get bloody and use this e-zine as your one way ticket to finding out what the discerning zombies are doing this year… As this is still the season to be snowed on you will notice this issue is packed with films to check out and settle down with, books to make your hair white and bizarrely our first zombie inspired soundtrack… and its f**kin awesome… Plus the ‘how to survive a zombie apocalypse’ tour started recently at the Leicester comedy festival and if you can check this out then it could save your life… Meet Dr Dale and tell him your deepest fears...

if you are doing anything zombie related and you want zombie fans to find out then please let us know by emailing [email protected] and we will tell more than 10,000 of them about it… keep on zomming and see you soon,

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The Zombie Times - COntents

Page 1 - The shape of things to come... Page 2 - FAB Fest and Zombie Events for 2010 Page 3 - Editors letter from Zombie Ed and contents Page 4 - News & Events ‘Ayupmeduckofthedead’ short film news and Staffords zombiewalk Page 5 - News & Events Various UK Based Events… A walk, A comedy tour and a film needs help Page 6 - News & Events Short Films Needed and ‘Zombie Undead’ release news Page 7 - News & Events ’Ninjas Vs Zombies’ the age old question is answered Page 8 - Releases Classics in the making released on DVD… ‘Pontypool’ and ‘Survival of the Dead’ Page 9 - Releases Vegan Zommers and ‘Zombies of Mass Destruction?’ Page 10 - Releases ‘NOTLD 3D’ on DVD and the book ‘Zombies: A record of a year of infection’ Page 11 - Releases ‘Deadworld’ Comics. Past, present and future plus a bloody brilliant competition Page 12 - Releases A Game needs help & Mr Foree Vs Zombies again… Its ‘Apocalypse of the Dead’ Page 13 - Releases ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: Deluxe Edition’ and November Fire... Page 14 - Releases Beautiful Undead Music by Buzz-Works and some Strange Zombies Page 15 - MAKE UP - Steven Boyle Bio and NEW Artists Directory... Page 16 - MAKE UP - Gav’n Gore is looking for more and Zombie Tutorials are out soon… Page 17 - Releases - ‘Zombieland’ out on DVD Page 18 - CAPCOM and Competitions

We are always Looking for zombie news, so even if you just hear of something please let us know!!!


By the time you read this, we're fully expecting 'Ay up me duck of the Dead', a low budget zombie short, to be completed. Production work on the film first began way back in 2009, which seems like a 100 years away now! The team behind the film are mainly employed by a games development

company, Monumental Games, based in Nottingham. Utilizing the skills they have from creating video games, they set to work on a short zombie film. They found that the most amazing thing about the whole process was the support they received from the local community and businesses, providing the film lo-cations, media coverage and of the course the main ingredient, zombies and the make-up artists. With in-terest from the local press and even the BBC, the pro-duction team were helped in their search for undead actors - who would be required to lurch around the streets of Nottingham in the early hours, during three weekends of filming. With all the scenes finally in the can, what was ex-pected to be a 10 minute short, was extended to nearly 20 minutes, mainly due to some great shots provided by the horde of undead. Effects were added, the music was composed, the sound dubbed and the film was graded, ready for the much anticipated premiere, ex-pected sometime during February 2010.

So what's next for 'apint' film productions? Work is well underway on a full length zombie based script with most of the original production team still involved. Filming is due to commence during the Summer of 2010 and the team are interested in hearing from local people who would like to get involved in the produc-tion process. There will be various roles available rang-ing from lighting, sound, runners and production assis-tants. If you're interested in becoming involved and want to find out more, please email [email protected] Finally, the production team would like to thank eve-ryone who made this all possible. It may have been dark, early in the morning and sometimes cold, but the zombie horde never complained and put in some great undead performances! Writer: Steve Best Director: Pedram Karimfazli & Steve Best Producer: Susan Hayes PA: Robert Stephens Camera: Craig Newson Music: Luke Smith Sound: Andy Gibson Titles: Steve Askey Editor: Steve Best Actors: Dani Reeve & Joe Deuchar

www.ayupmeduckofthedead.co.uk

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Stafford Zombiewalk 6th March 2010

Wanted, zombies to participate in a charity zombie walk through the streets and parks of

Stafford. The date is now confirmed as 6th March 2010. The charity we are raising funds for is

Katherine House Hospice. The provisional time is 2pm, location to be confirmed. After a few

hours of shuffling and groaning we will head to a pub TBC, hopefully to enjoy some zombielicious

live music. Sponsors are welcome, head to http://www.justgiving.com/staffordzombiewalk2010

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Dead in Oxford

Zombie crawl to be held on the 10th August 2010 in Oxford, UK. We will all meet at the Ashmolean museum (near the Randolf hotel on Beaumont street) at 1pm and crawl and moan our way around the streets of Oxford! - Finally finishing the day with a good mind-numbing drink (obviously 18 + only!) at the Gloucester arms! If you plan to attend, please join the group and invite people to come! If no more than 70 peo-ple plan to attend then the crawl will be can-celled (It wouldn’t be much fun if there were 5 of us!) - Everyone who plans to attend MUST be in zombie attire! Remember - this is not a riot. So if you plan to cause trouble - you WILL be dead by the end of the day. If you have any questions feel free to email me at - [email protected]

Do you know what a zombie looks like and how you become infected? Would you be aware of the safest place to go when the un-dead rise? Could you effectively kill a zombie with a florida orange lipbalm and roll of cello-tape? The answer to these questions may be ‘yes’. The an-swer to these questions may be ‘no’ or the answer could just be ‘I don’t care’ – well, you should care! Because if you don’t care then it is guaranteed that you will become a corpse – and a walking one at that! That is why, this year, Dr Dale and his acolytes from the School of Survival will be touring their ‘Wonderfully Weird’ (threeweeks) and ‘brilliantly bizarre’ (broadway baby) seminar ‘How To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse’ across the UK in order that the human race (or at least, the smart ones) have a chance of surviving once the flesh-eating masses attack. ‘Our seminar will save lives,’ The self pro-fessed guru , Dr Dale Seslick tells us, nodding sagely: ‘It is my mission in life to ensure that the general public receives the information they need to be able to survive a zombie outbreak. We teach the basics like how to build weapons and barricades from eve-ryday items, where the safest places to hide are, how to choose which friend or family member to sacrifice when the need arises along with much more – and we try and keep the whole process fun and upbeat whilst dealing with these serious key issues.’ http://howtosurviveazombieapocalypse.co.uk/#

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Zombie Short Films Needed for Festivals If you have made a Zombie Film or know someone that has and you would like it to be shown in front of a crowd of zombie loving freaks then please let us have your movies… We love no-budget, high gore films, professionally pro-duced arthouse zombie films, foreign language zom-coms, anything with zombies in we love and will try to show, we have shown pant-wettingly scary films and stop motion lego-horrors films. We have also shown films made by professional crews entering international competitions and films made by a class of 13 year olds from Essex, so we want them all. If you can send us your shorts, then we will watch them, make sure they fit the bill and then we will show them at Zombie Fest, which is held in the UK during August and then at the Day of the Undead ‘Festival of Zombie Culture’ too, which is normally held during November… You will receive our eternal gratitude and be credited as much as possible too in the build up to the events…

For films to be potentially shown at ‘Zombie Fest 2010’ and ‘Day of the Undead 2010’ there are only couple of guidelines… They must be less than 20 minutes long. They must have zombies in them. They must be on DVD or in DVD format. From our point of view, we just love showing them and want as many people as possible to enjoy them, so we will show them no-where apart from the mentioned events. I hope the above makes sense, it seems to from where I am sitting, but I am dressed as a zombie and need to go to bed now its 5.30am… If you are planning on sending us a film then please email [email protected] and we will answer any questions that you may have…

Thanks for listening and catch you soon…

Zombie Ed of Terror4fun

We want your short films

Well the dust has settled after the initial limited theat-rical release of Zombie Undead. Late last year saw a preview screening at The Day Of The Undead. We used this to gauge response and receive feedback so we could trim and cut to make the edit tighter. This pre-view was followed by a 2010 weekend run at Phoenix Square of the final film. Over 600 people attended which was an amazing turn out and the response we've had so far has been overwhelming. Now we need to turn this positivity into sales. Following these screenings Zombie Undead is attracting interest from both sales agents and distributors alike - with re-quests for copies both in Europe and America. We're looking at various territories around the world and hoping for that glorious North America release. Something we are concentrating on is gathering mate-rial for the DVD extra features. The Zombie Undead

DVD will be packed with special features so if you were an extra then you may well have another appearance in one of the making of documentaries. Zombie Undead is now on IMDB. If you were a zombie in the film but are not on the IMDB credit list then put yourself on there. http://www.zombieundead.com/

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Now seeking international distribution through Arsenal Pictures, NVZ has been called "An episode of 'Friends' meets 'Spider Man', with a side of Jackie Chan. Oh - and then bloodthirsty zombies show up and start eating everybody." Seven friends, struggling with late 20s, early 30's life, find themselves in terrifying danger when a long- dead loved one is magically resurrected and starts devouring souls. To make matters worse, three of them have been granted the power of the ninja, and now must lead the fight against a power they cannot hope to vanquish. If they fail, the undead will overrun their little town, and maybe the world. What follows is a whirlwind of magic, swordplay, hand to hand combat, gunfire and simmer-ing sarcasm. From high flying flips to a full-on melee, from a claustrophobic last stand to an electrifying katana battle, NINJAS VS ZOMBIES is a chilling, laugh out loud, edge of your seat adventure. The strategy behind the film has always been the sim-plicity of the concept. We like to joke "Its ninjas versus freakin’ zombies! Who wouldn't watch this film?!" Our screenwriter/director spent an afternoon in a Block-buster looking for "The film they haven't made yet". From there, he realized that it was those simple DTV releases with a hook ("Uncle Sam", "Killer Klowns", "Naked Weapon") that seemed to populate the new release wall. The goal then became to craft a film that

delivered two concepts with their own fan-bases, but would grow in appeal once discovered (as too often those impulse rentals lead to a disappointing viewing experi-ence). By study-ing the small but fierce fanbases of Joss Whedon and Kevin Smith, we realized that a smartly told, violent but funny, surprising

film with "quotability" would elevate the film beyond that im-pulse rental to the "you have to see this" status (i.e. the infinite DVD re-releases of "Army Of Darkness"). The secondary strategy is the "human interest story". El Mariachi. Clerks. Blair Witch. Evil Dead. Part of the innate appeal of these multi-million dollar fran-chises starts with the story of a regular Joe who makes a movie sans Hol-lywood. Our hope is that this is the 2000's go-to story of how a really big looking, funny, chilling, action-packed, quality film was financed by those regular Joes. Our projects history has that "anyone can do it" feel to it - and no one is going to be stumbling for the name of the film - its "Ninjas vs. Zombies". Finally, this is a film that is made by people who love movies. It’s not an auteur trying to be artsy, it’s not strictly a financially motivated film. It’s a movie made by a group of talented, undiscovered, passionate pro-fessionals who decided to pool their resources because they believe in the project, their team, and building something bigger than the sum of its parts. As you learn more about us, we're certain you will be a be-liever too.

For information on how to see NINJAS VS ZOMBIES

Email [email protected]!

Or visit the site at http://nvzmovie.com/nvzhome.php

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Oliver Stone's "Talk Radio" meets John Carpenter's "The Fog" in PONTYPOOL, a psychological chiller about a mysteriously transmitted virus that threat-ens the residents of a small Canadian town. Adapted by author Tony Burgess from his award winning bestseller "Pontypool Changes Everything" and directed by Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo; The Tracey Fragments), PONTYPOOL stars Stephen McHattie (Watchmen), Lisa Houle (Due South; Sein-feld) and Georgina Reilly (Terry Southern's Plums And Prunes). It appears to be just another humdrum winter's day in Pontypool, Ontario as shock-jock Grant Mazzy (McHattie) goes on air to present his morning phone-in radio show from a studio in the basement of the town's church. But amidst the minor news items re-garding school bus cancellations and missing cats being reported by Mazzy's listening public and his "Eye in the Sky" reporter are a series of bizarre re-ports of local people developing strange speech pat-terns and committing acts of horrific violence. With no confirmation of these events on the official news wires, Mazzy, his producer (Houle) and assistant (Reilly) suspect an elaborate hoax is being played. However, it isn't long before the radio team realise that the reports are real and that something terrible is happening beyond the studio walls. Trapped inside the church as bloody chaos reigns outside, they must decide if they should stay on air in the hopes of being heard and eventually rescued, even though they suspect their broadcasts may be con-tributing to the madness infecting the residents of Pontypool. PONTYPOOL (cert. 15) is out on DVD now...

Pontypool on dvd

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DVD Release Date: 15 Mar 2010 A group of rogue soldiers seek shelter from the zom-bie apocalypse on scenic Plum Island, only to be-come caught up in a bitter feud between two war-ring families. Crocket (Alan Van Sprang) and his motley crew of military abandoners are searching for a safe place to rest when they cross paths with Pat-rick O'Flynn (Kenneth Welsh). O'Flynn has been ban-ished from Plum Island, where his family is locked in a long-time quarrel with the Muldoons. The O'Flynns see the flesh-eaters as subhuman, never hesitating to put a bullet between their eyes; the Muldoons balk at the prospect of killing their gut-munching loved ones, instead opting to care for their rotting kinfolk until scientists find a cure for the undead scourge. As the division between the two families grows deeper and wider, Crocket and his men realize that on Plum Island, the zombies are the least of their wor-ries.

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“In The Event of a Zombie Attack” This is not a DVD, this could be the next best thing to a

van load of BIG guns... Find out more at:

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Perhaps this is the film we all should have been waiting for…. It’s a riot of a zombie film, inspired by the post 9/11 feelings experienced by the Iranian born director… An idyllic island town is under attack by that most invasive of pests: zombies! Port Gam-ble is being overrun with braineaters, and the people seem powerless to stave them off. But wait, a rag tag band

of rebels is trying to turn the tide and push the invading hoards of undead back. It sounds familiar, sure, but this time stereotypes are on parade (and parody) in a re-take on the zombie thriller. We have the full compli-

ment of cinematic shorthand, including the closeted small town boy who has gone to the city and returns with his pushy boyfriend in tow; the angry, hard-working, heavy-accented, immigrant from a Muslim country who is overprotective of his beautiful daughter; the hippie peacenik environmentalist; the fire and brimstone reverend who hates everything you’d expect him to, and many more. Enter the zombies. Gore abounds (really abounds) and the current events-based hits keep coming. Gore abounds (really abounds) and the current events-based hits keep coming in this send-up of zombie movie clichés where no subculture escapes unscathed. --Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Latest news… The LA premiere happened at the end of January and hopefully this film will be head-ing for some form of release by mid 2010…

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Zombies of Mass Destruction

Attack of the Vegan Zombies… NOW ON DVD at Amazon.com…

Dionne Talbott and her husband, Joe Bryant, own and operate a family vineyard. After yet another failed crop, Joe wants to give up on their dream and sell the vineyard. Dionne solicits the help of her mother Audra, a practicing witch, who casts a spell on the farm. The following year they have such a bountiful harvest that they hire an old friend, Professor Frank, to help them pick the grapes. Professor Frank gets four college students to join him over the weekend. While working, they begin to notice phenomenal growth rates for the vines. Professor Frank ventures into the woods to inves-tigate the water supply after their neighbor disappears. Dionne becomes suspicious and confronts her mother about the exact nature of the spell. Audra finally admits to her and Joe the potential threat it brings: the vegetation may attack people and turn them into zombies! They immediately summon the four students inside the house for their own safety. After Joe finds Professor Frank's bag in the woods, they reach the conclusion that he may be a zombie. Their fears are compounded when their missing

neighbor emerges as a zombie and attacks Joe and Dionne. They retreat to the house only to realize that it has become a prison. Unable to flee or call for help, they must stand and fight the vegan zombies the only way they can: by con-cocting a counter spell and face the zombies in their own fields.

http://www.attackoftheveganzombies.com/

Attack of the vegan zombies


Both an homage to and a re-make of the original George Romero 1968 classic film, this update follows a group of survivors trapped in a farmhouse battling a siege of undead zombies....in 3D! and this time Sid Haig is involved…. Barb and her brother Johnny arrive late for the burial of their aunt and walk straight into a nightmare. With zombies on her heels, Barb flees the cemetery and is rescued by Ben, a local college student. The two seek refuge in the nearby farmhouse of the Cooper family, where the laid-back residents aren't remotely prepared to have their lives turn into a horror movie. But Barb is destined for an even grimmer confrontation, with the local mortician, Gerald Tovar, Jr… This DVD is out in March in the UK and comes with 2 pairs of 3D glasses in each pack, making it ideal to scare the shit out of 2 people at a time… Sid Haig in 3D, at least its not Spaulding...

This frightening new con-tribution to the mas-sively popular zombie resurgence will keep fans on the edge of their seats right up to the very end. This book is unsettling in its realistic write up to the and beautiful art-work, weaving the tale one man and the end of the world… The year is 2011, and what starts as a perva-sive and inexplicable ill-

ness ends up as a zombie infestation that devastates the world's population. Taking the form of an illustrated journal found in the aftermath of the attack, this pulse-pounding, suspense-ful tale of zombie apocalypse follows biologist Dr Robert Twombly as he flees from city to countryside and heads north to Canada, where he hopes the living dead will be slowed by the colder climate. Encountering scattered humans and scores of the in-fected along the way, he fills his notebook with graphic drawings of zombies and careful observations of their behaviour, along with terrifying tales of survival.

This is certainly one to keep your eyes out for, if you do not win one in our competition. There is something unsettling about reading this first hand account, with sketches, as if you had come across the book yourself… It simply makes it all the plausible and removes printed text in favour of handwriting and pencil drawing. This will certainly have film makers clamouring for the rights sooner rather than later… Enjoy it and Sweet Dreams...

Zombies: A Record of a Year of Infection

To win a copy of this Book then check out the comp on the back of this issue of The Zombie Times.

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Night of the living dead in 3d!!!

Slaughterhouse is a self contained story arc set in the Deadworld. Humans find themselves trapped in a world of the walking dead as a supernatural holocaust was unleashed on the Earth. But it is not just the zom-bies that bring death for amongst the living, there are those who will do anything to survive and to celebrate they are sorting out a mountain of prizes for you to win...

When a repeated message is broadcast across the air-waves, inviting people to join together at a sanctuary called Safe Haven, there seems to be some hope that humans can organize and stand against the growing dead. However, the promise of Safe Haven reveals a much darker and sinister purpose---when victims find themselves in a medical facility which will stop at noth-ing to combat the zombie plague. In an effort to combat the growing plague, researchers try a scientific approach to save mankind. Using hu-mans as guinea pigs, natural diseases such as leprosy, AIDS, and cancer are used to infect the zombies. Survi-vors find that the greatest horror may not be the zom-bies but other humans. To the unfortunate, Safe Ha-ven becomes known as the Slaughterhouse. Deadworld: Slaughterhouse wax originally to be re-leased as a four issue series from Desperado Publishing and the first issue shipped in early 2009. However, due to changes in production, Desperado moved from sell-ing comics to only books and Slaughterhouse was in-stead released as a graphic novel in hardcover which shipped in late January 2010. Slaughterhouse was written by Deadworld scribe, Gary Reed, and illustrated by Sami Makkonen. Sami also

illustrated Hatter M, the graphic novel based on the best selling The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. Last year, Deadworld was signed by Framelight Pro-ductions as a film with Bill Mechanic, former head of Fox Studios, spearheading the production. David Hay-ter, writer of the Watchmen and X-Men movies, script-ing the Deadworld story. Deadworld is one of the longest running independent comics as over 70 issues have been released and it origi-nally started back in the 1980’s. Deadworld, along with Desperado, moves to IDW start-ing in April, 2010. On the schedule for this year are three Deadworld projects. One is Deadworld Classic featuring all of Vince Locke’s artwork---a massive tome of over 530 pages. Deadworld Omnibus will col-lect the last three story arcs from Image Comics and Desperado, and there will be another all new graphic novel towards the end of the year, Deadworld: The Last Siesta. www.deadworld.info/


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Apocalypse of the Dead Ken Foree just cannot resist Zommers…

Again... on DVD from March 2010 After the Night, after the Dawn, after the Day…comes an epic fight for survival in the realm of the undead. Transporting a valuable human cargo of state prisoners across a hazardous war zone, a group Interpol merce-naries headed by Agents Reyes and Milius are forced to make an unscheduled detour when they encounter the remnants of a catastrophic ecological disaster. Trapped is a hazardous wasteland, miles from help and civilization, they find themselves besieged by a vast army of rampaging, blood-thirsty mutants, ravenous creatures who will stop at nothing to devour every mor-sel of human flesh in sight. As Reyes and Milius fight for their lives and to protect their precious cargo, they realize their only chance for escape is in joining forces with the treacherous criminals in their care. But these men have a past as deadly and terrifying as the monsters out for their blood. Starring the original zombie slayer, “Dawn Of The Dead”’s Ken Foree: the apocalypse has begun. OFFICIAL SELECTION Sitges Film Festival, Trieste Film Festival Special Features * The Making Of ‘Apocalypse Of The Dead’ * Trailer


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Who doesn’t love them? Am I right? Or at least love to shoot them? Well you are in luck, new best friend, because I’m making a game to do just that! It’s an idea I came up with in England. In the shower. I know, NEI (Not Enough Information), but that’s all you’re going to get about that. Sorry. Zombie Fortress is a zombie survival game. You’ll have to defend survivors while they try to make it to the fortress. To do this, you’ll use an array of weapons that you collect or build to kill the zombies before they can attack and kill the survivors. Survivors bring things you need with them, and can be sent back out to get more things. It’s tower defense-y, it’s gauntlet-y, it’s a lot of things-y. To get the game developed, the 3D artwork, and the sound created, I’ve got Santa Cruz Games helping me. They've developed games for Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo. Including Tomb Raider: Underworld for DS. They don’t come cheap though, and that’s why I’m here, so I can afford to pay them when they are fin-ished making my game awesome. Also, I want to do frequent updates and add new maps, weapons, and zombie types to the game. Any money I make over the goal will go towards those updates. To thank you for your pledge to help fund the game’s creation, I have a load of great rewards for everyone that pledges 10 dollars or more… Feel free to message me if you have any questions or comments. Thanks for pledging! Tell your friends! Rick The project is here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zincotroid/zombie-fortress-for-the-iphone-fight-back-the-zo

Zombie games

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Ninjas vs zombies Pride & Prejudice & Zombies: DELUXE

Edition

Special limited ‘Deluxe Heirloom’ edition of the undead sensation with 30% new zombie may-hem! In hardback for the first time, with a faux leather foil-stamped cover, sewn binding and satin ribbon marker, this expanded edition of the cult bestsel-ler Pride and Prejudice and Zombies features:

new scenes of carnage, corpse-slaying, and cannibalism; thirteen colour oil painting illustrations; a new preface from co-author Seth Grahame-Smith; and an after-word from Austen scholar & English professor Dr. Allen Grove.

There is a limited print run of 80,000 copies, with 5,000 on sale in the UK. Jane Austen’s Regency classic collides with zombie horror at its best in the surprise literary hit of 2009. A UK bestseller, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide and spent twenty-seven consecutive weeks on the New York Times Best-seller list. Complete with romance and civilised sparring, social satire and rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms Jane Austen’s masterpiece into a gory comedy of manners for a twenty-first century gen-eration of readers. This hardcover volume honours a masterpiece of classic zombie literature.

The best just got better, My lord


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The dead are rising from their graves in search of human prey... Sharpen your axes, barricade your doors and prepare for the Zombie Influx! This nightmare soundscape creates the horror and panic of a zombie invasion with eerie sound effects, emer-gency news bulletins, and cine-matic music. Buzz-Works founder Jeff Hartz brings the living dead to your doorstep with this creepy concept album that creates the horror and panic of a zom-bie invasion through the use of frantic emergency news broadcasts, ambient sound effect tracks and ominous cinematic music. A lifelong fan of George Romero's classic zombie films, as well as Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series, Jeff was inspired to create Zombie Influx as a tribute to the movies that warped his mind. Teaming with

Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski of Nox Arcana, Jeff set out to capture the panic and ter-ror of a zombie invasion along the lines of the 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast. The re-sult is a dark atmospheric sound-scape that paints a bleak por-trait of a world ravaged by the living dead. Check out more of their amazing music to suit every dark occasion

at www.buzz-works.com

The best zombie music ever - by zombie ed

To win a copy of this truly amazing CD then check out the competition on the back of this issue of The Zombie Times.

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Strange Zombies, Part 10Strange Zombies, Part 10Strange Zombies, Part 10Strange Zombies, Part 10 If you have more snaps of yourself or friends as the Undead and being strange then please send them to us at: [email protected] Yes this week, not so strange, but its one of our Tees (and Kat) with Mr

Savini!!! Followed up quickly by Chris ‘I Love all Things Zombie’ Smith in his Tee by the Statue of Lib-erty… This rocks… If we get anymore strange pics of our Tees there may be prizes involved...

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Bio 2009: Steve Boyle grew up with a love of all things creative and as a young child was drawn to the visuals and story telling of the world of film. As he grew older he started to pursue creating his own images based on the inspiration of Hammer Horror productions and fantasy films. His creative outlet be-came special make-up effects and by the age of 12 he was already completing his own complex special effects and making mini films. After leaving school he decided to pursue film more se-riously and studied Film and Television at the Queen-sland College of Arts where he later met good friends and directors Peter and Michael Spierig. This friendship

and Steve’s passion for spe-cial make-up effects led him to do the effects in their short films and later their debut feature film Undead. As Steve’s experience ex-panded he was offered work at JMB FX, where he went on to do films like

Star Wars EPII and The Matrix II and III before he decided to start his own company. It was through ARC FX that Steve created the inspiring work for Undead on a shoe string budget. In 2004 Steve had the pleasure of showcasing his talent to Academy Award winner Richard Taylor who promptly offered him work in New Zealand on Peter Jackson’s King Kong. From there, Steve continued to work at Weta Work-shop on various projects such as, Black Sheep and 30 days of Night, all the while continuing collaboration with other film makers. Steve’s love for Special FX makeup includes a keen in-terest in sharing his work through teaching and is cur-rently putting together a series of educational DVDs that will help people make their own zombie makeups for the worldwide Zombie Walk phenomenon.

Make Up Artist Directory This is just a place where we can put your details if you are actively looking for more gore & zombies to create and you don’t mind getting emailed. You may contacted by a no-budget indie film, it may be someone needing some advice for a fancy dress con-cept or it may a Hollywood Producer wanting you to work on something huge… All we ask is that you have done some horror/zombie work in the past 12 months and we will try to fit you in here… The details we would need are explained below… Name: Surprisingly, the name of the artist Based: Where the artist is from Feature Films: Worked on & release date Short Films: Worked on & release date Zombies: Where else the artist has created zombies Contact Via: Hopefully an email address

Who on earth is steven boyle???

Name: Gavin Pate aka Gav’n Gore Based: Leicestershire, The Midlands, UK Feature Films: Zombie Undead, 2010 Short Films: ZU Trailer, 2008 Zombies: Zombie Fest 06-09, Day of the Undead 07-09, Resident Evil Ext.-Photoshoot Contact Via: [email protected]

Name: Steven Boyle Based: Australia Feature Films: Star Wars Ep II, Undead, King Kong, Black Sheep and 30 Days of Night. Short Films: Yes Zombies: Yes Contact Via: [email protected]

“In The Event of a Zombie Attack” This is not a DVD, this could be the next best thing to a

van load of BIG guns... Find out more at:

http://intheeventofazombieattack.com


Gavin Pate AKA Terror4Funs Gav n Gore is a talented Special Effects make-up artist based in Leicester He has been most recently involved in Leicester’s very first Horror Feature film Zombie Undead where he was the head of Special Effects & Make-up. The film sold out on its opening night and is soon to be released on

DVD, he is also currently in talks with a North-ampton based film com-pany to head up the Spe-cial Effects on a Super-natural Gore Movie which they are hoping to take to the Cannes film festi-val. For the DVD & Blu-ray release of Resident Evil Extinction Gav was enlisted by Sony Pictures to create several zombies for promotional photog-

raphy alongside the cast of The Dis-covery Channels Chop Shop London Garage. Gav is pretty much available for any-thing that requires lots of Gore!! Most recently he did make-up for A Halloween inspired wedding, creating A Horned De-monic Groom along with a Vampire Bride & Brides-maids. He can always be found manically creating a multitude of different looking Zombies & Wounds at Terror4Funs ZombieFest in August If you need any horror make-up effects, be it for film projects or parties within the midlands area don’t hesi-tate in contacting Gav at [email protected]

One of the most rewarding aspects of my job, is hearing from people all over the world who share the same in-terest in making monsters. Zombies have always proven to be the most popular and this shows no sign of fading anytime soon. Ever since the release of UNDEAD back in 2003, I have received emails from people all over the globe requesting tips on how to do their own Zombie FX. Although I have been very fortunate in my career with the assortment of films I have worked on, UNDEAD will always stand out for one reason… It’s a low budget zombie movie that has a lot of fond followers. I think only one zombie on the first day of shooting was con-structed of foam latex, the rest were out of the kit makeups relying on my ingenuity at the time. The queries I have been getting have dramatically in-creased due to the success of Zombie Walks all over the world. People have been asking me for tips on how to

create high quality Zombie FX with very little. It is because of this interest that I have decided to com-plete a series of Zombie tutorials on DVD that will show beginners how to do their own cool Zombie FX. The tutorials will cover an assortment of juicy details, such as basic zombie makeups, making eyeballs, making Guts and other juicy leftovers. The first set will be aimed at beginners (Though I’m planning a second set for those interested in more advanced techniques.) This DVD set will help me reach more of you who are interested in Zombie Horror! The first pack is set to be released in May – June 2010. I look forward to keeping you up to date with their progress and as always, feel free to contact me with questions or queries regarding Zombie makeup and FX at: [email protected]

Keep rotting… Steve Boyle

Gav ’n gore is looking for more

Zombie tutorials COMING YOUR WAY...


Woody Harrelson Stars in the Action



Woody Harrelson Stars in the Action----Packed Horror Comedy Hit…Packed Horror Comedy Hit…Packed Horror Comedy Hit…Packed Horror Comedy Hit…

That’s Now the #1 Grossing Zombie Movie in History!That’s Now the #1 Grossing Zombie Movie in History!That’s Now the #1 Grossing Zombie Movie in History!That’s Now the #1 Grossing Zombie Movie in History!

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Watch out, as this land is about to become ZOMBIELAND Nerdy college student Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) has survived the plague that has

turned mankind into flesh-devouring zombies because he’s scared of just about

everything. Gun-toting, Twinkie-loving Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) has no fears.

Together, they are about to stare down their most horrifying challenge yet: each

other’s company. Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin co-star in this double-hitting, head-smashing comedy. Get ready to “nut up or shut up!”

ZOMBIELAND ZOMBIELAND ZOMBIELAND ZOMBIELAND features enough outrageous la

ughs and terrifying thrills to satisfy th

e most hungry horror and

comedy fans. Plus, the Blu-ray and DVD disc

s come loaded with killer bonus features fans will devour, includin

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deleted scenes; commentary with Woody Harrelson and

Jesse Eisenberg, Director Ruben Fleisc

her and Writers Rhett

Reese and Paul Wernick; the making-of featurettes “In Search of Zom

bieland,” and “Zombieland is Your Land

;”

visual effects progression scenes; traile

rs and more!

To win a copy of this on DVD, please just tel

l us who directed this beautiful

piece of zombie cinema history… more details on the back of this issue...

© 2009 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. and Beverly

Blvd LLC. All Rights Reserved.

To enter the competitions in this issue of the Zombie Times, send your answers to the following questions to [email protected] as soon as possible… (Closing dates may vary, check our website!)

Comp 1) Win ‘Pontypool’ on DVD. 'Who plays the main character of the DJ in this film?' Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘PONTYPOOL’

Comp 2) Win ‘Survival of the Dead’ on DVD. 'Which actor plays Crocket in Survival of the Dead?' Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD’

Comp 3) Win ‘Night of the Living Dead 3D’ on DVD. 'In which film did Sid Haig first play Captain Spaulding?' Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘NOTLD 3D’

Comp 4) Win a ‘Zombies: A Record of…’ book. 'Who is the actual author of the book?' Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘RECORD OF INFECTION’

Comp 5) Win tonnes of ‘Deadworld Goodies’ Which celebrity you would like to survive the Zombie Apocalypse with and in 10 words or less, why ??? Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘’DEADWORLD’

Comp 6) Win ‘Apocalypse of the Dead’ on DVD. 'Which character did Ken Foree play in 'Splatter Disco'?' Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘APOCALYPSE OF THE DEAD’

Comp 7) Win a ‘Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - Deluxe’ book. 'Who painted the new colour illustrations?' Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘DELUXE ZOMBIES’

Comp 8) Win loads of November Fire Zombie Merchandise… Check our websites competitions page for more info...

Comp 9) Win a ‘Zombie Influx’ CD. 'Which Track from Zombie Influx shares its name with a Neil Marshall Film?' Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘ZOMBIE INFLUX’ Comp 10) Win ‘Zombieland’ on DVD. Who directed Zombieland? Send us an email with the answer and the subject ‘ZOMBIELAND’

PLEASE EMAIL US YOUR ANSWERS SEPERATELY. THIS HELPS US SORT THEM OUT!!! CHEERS... ONLINE Competitions: www.terror4fun.com/zombie_competitions

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